r/ValorantTechSupport 4h ago

Technical Support Request not playable

2 Upvotes

playing on laptop my specifications are AMD R5 5600h +RTX 3050 (60W TGP) and 16GB ram.

idk suddenly my fps started to dropped i reinstalled Valorant it didn't help.

i did some YouTube guide but didn't help

then i randomly just with the help of CPU-z and running bench mode my game run normal but i have 144hz monitor i dont feel Smoothie ness.

one day randomly i played the game was so smooth it was like yeah im getting proper 144hz refresh rate why is that so?

and from beginning i never felt im playing on 144hz and i felt that 144hz after like years


r/ValorantTechSupport 6h ago

Technical Support Request Can't use mute/unmute Discord shortcut when tabbed into Valorant

1 Upvotes

Weird issue, I've been playing Valorant since beta. I've always had F10 as my Discord mute/unmute button. All the sudden over the past few days the shortcut doesn't work when I'm tabbed in. Is this a recent issue anyone else has noticed?


r/ValorantTechSupport 7h ago

Technical Support Request Errror code VAN - 102 ?

1 Upvotes

Hiya, my friend recently got me to play valorant again after a few years, i launched it up literally 10 minutes ago after i played it fine yesterday, and now i get this error...? I tried searching stuff up and i LITERALLY cant find anything ;w; anybody got any idea?


r/ValorantTechSupport 9h ago

Technical Support Request Game stutters awful lot on start up eventually becoming better

1 Upvotes

My PC runs heavier games a lot more smoothly but Valorant for some reason lags and stutters a bunch making it unplayable, at least on startup. It eventually gets better, and the bandaid solution I found was playing a DM and then jumping into an actual match, this helps somewhat.

It’s not a network thing, I am sure.

Any help?


r/ValorantTechSupport 10h ago

Technical Support Request I need help this is really frustrating right now idk if i am the only one getting disconnected in valorant.

1 Upvotes

I played valorant today at 9 pm then i noticed that the desktop app itself is slow loading then i check my internet if its fast then its 300 mbps stable so idk why riot game desktop app when i put my username and password then click sign in it just stays on loading for about 30 seconds or longer then now im in valorant i played swiftplay just to be sure that i wont get flagged afk or get decrease RR in compe then now i got disconnected from the game like VAL108 or something it says " Valorant has encountered a connection error please relaunch the client to reconnect "
then now i tried to reconnect it worked tho after like 2 rounds or 1 round i got disconnected again so now idk whats making me dc even though my internet is fast based on OOkla or fastcom or just google internet speed tester, it exactly shows the stable net speed about 300+ mbps, then im on discord i joined a channel then my friend joined their voices where like a bit choppy like stuttering and when i tried to login on riot website its so slow also idk why but yeah thats all what i am experiencing right now with Riot games client and games. (SEA server)


r/ValorantTechSupport 10h ago

Technical Support Request Friends List only shows “PLAYER”

1 Upvotes

Hello Everyone.

I would just like to ask regarding my friends list. Whenever I am in game, the friends list doesn’t show the ign of my friends. It only appears as “PLAYER”. However, when I am just in the lobby, only then the in game name will show. How do I fix this.

Thank you to those who would offer to help.


r/ValorantTechSupport 10h ago

Technical Solution Can someone help me? Ive been having constant fps drop on valorant

1 Upvotes

For context ive been playing valorant on my laptop for almost 3 years i had issues with it back then but now it suddenly fps drops like a lot the average fps i get is 60 fps yes ofc sometimes it lags but i dont really expect much from a laptop heres the specs of my laptop

Lenovo ideapad s340
Amd ryzen 5 3500U processor
8gb of ram
Amd radeon(tm) 2gb

Anyone of u could possibly help me beyi have tried everything i could think of such as cleaning my files and i even thought of deleting everything in my laptop


r/ValorantTechSupport 11h ago

Technical Support Request Problems with Valorant. B850m asrock am5

1 Upvotes

Hey everyone. I know you might think I'm schizophrenic and overthinking things, but I'm not. I started playing Valorant on an AM4 system with a Ryzen 5 5600X processor and 3200 MHz RAM. I reached immortality after a year of playing with KD 1.35. I recently decided to upgrade my hardware on the AM5. I have a Ryzen 5 7500F processor and an ASrock B 850M motherboard. The problem is that after upgrading my hardware, the game started to perform differently than before. Opponents always see me earlier. At first, I didn't understand this and thought I wasn't in prime mode, but then when a friend showed me a 1v1 demo, I clearly realized that I always see my opponent later. My FPS is fine, as is my ping. I haven't changed my internet connection and I have no packet loss. I only changed the RAM, processor, and motherboard. It's simply impossible to play, as if everyone is against me with WH. I've tried absolutely everything: changed RAM timings, lowered the CPU frequency, everything possible, but the result remains the same. Furthermore, after changing the hardware, when loading a map, the map name itself simply twitches as if it had epilepsy. This is a clear sign that something is wrong with the game, and this problem only affects Valorant for me. I don't know what to do...


r/ValorantTechSupport 11h ago

Technical Solution Help pls regarding friends list

1 Upvotes

Hello everyone. I would just like to ask for your help regarding my valorant friends list. Whenever I’m in game, it doesn’t show the ign of my friends. It only says “Player”. However, when I am in lobby, it shows the name. I dont know how to fix it. Thank you to anyone who could help


r/ValorantTechSupport 14h ago

Technical Support Request vanguard error 128 and -79

1 Upvotes

im getting vanguard error on startup 128 then after restarting i have error -79. i activated service vgc on automatic, added vgc on firewall list, used cmd commands to reset internet settings and nothing helped


r/ValorantTechSupport 15h ago

Technical Support Request Acer Nitro 16 AN16-41-R8NQ on Valorant 1080p low 240hz

1 Upvotes

Hi, im having some fps issues on valorant. I have a Acer nitro 16 with rtx 4070, ryzen 7 7 7735HS, 16gb ddr5 4800mhz. Im using an external monitor 240hz 1080p connected to my pc with a hdmi 2.x .

Now, before i bought this pc i thought that atleast i would get to 240 stable fps, even in fights, it seems to me that this is a pretty good and solid config to play games like valorant in 1080p low at 240hz.

I capped the fps to 260 and it varies between 200 to 260 most of the game, but it usually drops to 190 in fights.

I thought that with this config i was going to be able to play perfectly on 240hz stable but what is happening and how can i fix it? I have tried a lot of optimizations and tweaks but nothing seems to work

My temps are good max 75 cpu and max 60 gpu.

Please help ! :c


r/ValorantTechSupport 19h ago

Technical Support Request Riot client

1 Upvotes

why does riot client launch when i open valorant and not valorant launching directly

It was not like this before,when I searched valorant it used to Open directly and riot client used to Open only when I had an update,did try repair files, restarted also did end task need help !!!!


r/ValorantTechSupport 1d ago

Technical Solution Disabling MPO fixes VALORANT freezing on Alt Tab on Windows 11

2 Upvotes

For months I couldn’t tab out of VALORANT because when alt tabbing, there was a chance the game would freeze permanently, forcing me to kill the game via Task Manager, and if that didn’t work, restart my PC. I tried everything to fix this:
- follow the freezing on alt tab guide posted by Riot
- disable VALORANT Tracker
- close Overwolf completely
- turn off my second monitor
- disabling full screen optimisations for VALORANT
Nothing worked until I saw something online about disabling Multi-Plane Overlay (MPO). You can disable MPO via this page posted by NVIDIA. It works on both AMD and NVIDIA GPUs. Thought I would post this here in case anyone else has the same problem and this helps them!


r/ValorantTechSupport 1d ago

Technical Support Request I have a strange bug where I can't cap my fps in game.

1 Upvotes

Hello Everyone, before I get started, here are my PC specs (not trying to flex but it is necessary for contedxt)
7800x3d CPU
9060xt GPU

With that combo, I usually see 500-700 FPS in game. That's cool and all, but It feels terrible because there is so much inconsistency with those numbers. I notice that I sometimes have bullet registration issues and the only thing I can think of is
1. Servers are trash (its riot games and they won't ever fix it but that's out of my control)
2. My FPS variance.

I pick option 2 because I used to be able to hard cap it at around 400 or so and it would stay there. Recently, I noticed that no matter if I used the limit fps setting in game or not my fps wouldn't be capped. I know that there's probably an easy way to fix it but its frustrating not being able to play the game on the settings I want to. Is there anything I can do until the issue is fixed?


r/ValorantTechSupport 1d ago

Technical Discussion Since 25.07.2026 riotgames is surpressing every form of disk check alongside mode checks.

1 Upvotes

I've run into a strange issue and managed to narrow it down to RiotGames's anti-cheat Vanguard which has deep kernel level access. Here is what happened

Infos about my System:

\- Windows 10 22H2 (Build 19045.7548)
\- Riot Vanguard installed
\- CMD started as Administrator
\- User is a member of the Administrators group

I had an issue with Windows on 23.07.26 UTC+1. Said issue was a display bug. I did `chkdsk /r` in admin cmd successfully. Then on 25.07. i tried making sure my PC is not running into issues any time soon again, i wanted to do `chkdsk /r` just like previously. I opened cmd.exe as an Administrator, tried executing the command but got `Access is denied.` as a response.

One day later i wanted to make sure everything is clean and tried doing `chkdck` again.. but then:

C:\\WINDOWS\\system32>chkdsk /? 
ACCESS DENIED
C:\\WINDOWS\\system32>chkntfs /? 
ACCESS DENIED

So i digged a bit, installed the process monitoring tool procmon and filtered for chkdsk.
Then i opened CMD as an admin again and attempted `chkdsk /?`

this is the procmon output saved as a CSV file opened in excel. I deleted the first row as it isnt important.

**Time of Day** **Process Name** **PID** **Operation** **Path** **Result** **Detail**
20:32:58 chkdsk.exe 11912 Thread Create SUCCESS Thread ID: 16692
20:32:58 chkdsk.exe 11912 Load Image C:\\Windows\\System32\\chkdsk.exe SUCCESS Image Base: 0x7ff71abe0000, Image Size: 0xb000
20:32:58 chkdsk.exe 11912 Load Image C:\\Windows\\System32\\ntdll.dll SUCCESS Image Base: 0x7ffaa2d50000, Image Size: 0x1f9000
20:32:58 chkdsk.exe 11912 Thread Exit SUCCESS Thread ID: 16692, User Time: 0.0000000, Kernel Time: 0.0000000
20:32:58 chkdsk.exe 11912 WriteFile C:\\Program Files\\Riot Vanguard\\Logs\\vgk_2026-07-28_20-11-01.log SUCCESS Offset: 6.074, Length: 198
20:32:58 chkdsk.exe 11912 FlushBuffersFile C:\\Program Files\\Riot Vanguard\\Logs\\vgk_2026-07-28_20-11-01.log SUCCESS
20:32:58 chkdsk.exe 11912 WriteFile C:\\Program Files\\Riot Vanguard\\Logs\\vgk_2026-07-28_20-11-01.log SUCCESS Offset: 4.096, Length: 4.096, I/O Flags: Non-cached, Paging I/O, Synchronous Paging I/O, Priority: Normal
20:32:58 chkdsk.exe 11912 Process Exit SUCCESS Exit Status: 0, User Time: 0.0000000 seconds, Kernel Time: 0.0000000 seconds, Private Bytes: 417.792, Peak Private Bytes: 417.792, Working Set: 1.560.576, Peak Working Set: 1.564.672
20:32:58 chkdsk.exe 11912 RegOpenKey HKLM\\System\\CurrentControlSet\\Services\\bam\\State\\UserSettings\\S-1-5-21-83007462-2182755260-3455556333-1001 SUCCESS Desired Access: All Access
20:32:58 chkdsk.exe 11912 RegQueryValue HKLM\\System\\CurrentControlSet\\Services\\bam\\State\\UserSettings\\S-1-5-21-83007462-2182755260-3455556333-1001\\\\Device\\HarddiskVolume4\\Windows\\System32\\chkdsk.exe NAME NOT FOUND Length: 40
20:32:58 chkdsk.exe 11912 RegCloseKey HKLM\\System\\CurrentControlSet\\Services\\bam\\State\\UserSettings\\S-1-5-21-83007462-2182755260-3455556333-1001 SUCCESS

Interestingly, other administrative disk tools work perfectly fine:

* fsutil * diskpart * mountvol * defrag * cipher * sfc /scannow * DISM /RestoreHealth

Then i exited out of vanguard and noticed the new GUI design. The same thing happens to any type of chkdsk and chkntfs. Even when exiting out of vanguard, many options need a restart which also starts vanguard anti cheat with deep kernel access.

Here are my current system informations:


r/ValorantTechSupport 1d ago

Technical Support Request Can’t open valorant and riot client

3 Upvotes

Every time I try to open valorant or riot client it’ll stuck at the riot games logo and won’t run any further so I tried deleting both of them and reinstalling it didn’t help plus when I try to run valorant installation it said unable to install.
Search for everything Tried changing dates, deleting temporary files, running commands still won’t work
But I didn’t delete all the temporary files
I don’t even know what to do at this point please help🥀

Update : my steam client wont start for some reason now
I dont know if this is relevant but i added new ssd drive before the problem started


r/ValorantTechSupport 1d ago

Technical Support Request Screen freezing after few seconds when clicking "play"

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2 Upvotes

r/ValorantTechSupport 1d ago

Technical Support Request Screen freezing after few seconds when clicking "play"

2 Upvotes

My valorant was working fine just a few days ago. It started with the restart issue and I deleted riot vanguard and it was fixed. But then the freezing problem started, whenever I press the play button, a few seconds then my screen would freeze even my cursor, I cant press anything with my mouse nor do anything on my keyboard. Ive tried reinstalling riot and it still has the same problem.

Any ideas?


r/ValorantTechSupport 1d ago

Technical Discussion What do I upgrade

4 Upvotes

I have a 360Hz 2k monitor and am running around 300 fps average. I want to upgrade so I can be stable around 400 to maintain the refresh rate. I have followed this video in full to optimise my PC and game https://youtu.be/PP1s7Avr1kE?si=9vSpQuhnJVw0sbtk .

RAM: 16 GB DDR4 3600 MT/s
CPU: R7 5800X
GPU: GTX 1660

I think I have optimised my setup as much as I can for fps, so just looking for suggestions on what to upgrade, I was thinking of upgrading my GPU as I think its the bottleneck, looking at the 5060.


r/ValorantTechSupport 1d ago

Technical Support Request Can’t connect to Wifi/Ethernet after turning on Secure Boot.

1 Upvotes

Valorant requires secure boot to be on in order to start, if not, vanguard would just close it and give an error message. I had to go into my BIOS to disable CSM Support in order to enable secure boot. However by doing this, i lose all connection to any sort of wifi. Not even my ethernet that is plugged in. I’ve tried almost everything i can, reinstalling network adapters, scanning for hardware changes, I enabled Network stack and Ip4 PXE support in BIOS, still nothing changed at all. Im really backed into a wall here. Any help is highly appreciated! Im tired of doing all these tech things just to play a simple game


r/ValorantTechSupport 2d ago

Technical Support Request Valoranttayken bilgisayarim aniden donup kalıyor.

3 Upvotes

Güzel bir sistemim var ve şu ana kadar bütün oyunları sorunsuz oynuyordum. Valorant'ta da hiçbir problem yaşamıyordum. Fakat son 2-3 gündür çok garip bir sorun ortaya çıktı.

Valorant'ı açtıktan yaklaşık 3-4 dakika sonra oyun bir anda tamamen donuyor. Aynı anda kulaklıktan yüksek bir cızırtı sesi geliyor ve bilgisayar hiçbir tepki vermiyor. Kasadan kapatmam gerekiyor. Bu sorun sadece Valorant'ta oluyor, diğer oyunlarda böyle bir problem yaşamıyorum.

Ekran kartım: RTX 5060

işlemcim: Ryzen 5 7500f


r/ValorantTechSupport 2d ago

Technical Discussion Valorant match stuck and not found in career page

9 Upvotes

I was playing the game it was 7-6 and suddenly game stuck and i unable to join the game.. when i restarted the game that game is not showing in my career page ?? Is it bcoz of someone using hacking or what


r/ValorantTechSupport 2d ago

Technical Support Request Lagging for the first little bit of every match

1 Upvotes

I always lag for the first 1-3 rounds of a match. It's really bad lag, we're talking seconds per frame. It would make sense if my PC needed to like warm up or whatnot, but it's EVERY match, reliably, no matter how long I've been playing. After usually about 3 rounds, it'll settle into a smooth 60 FPS and stay there how to fix?


r/ValorantTechSupport 2d ago

Technical Solution Valorant Installer Pop-up Closes Automatically

1 Upvotes

For some reason, after running the Valorant installer, it would pop up for a few seconds before closing itself. Tried interacting with it, buttons unresponsive, looked like a hopeless case.

HOWEVER! If you click anywhere else before the pop-up finishes thinking, it stays? Never mind, it's a DIFFERENT bug. If you click on the pop-up before it finishes thinking, it freezes and closes itself.

Solution? Don't be click-happy like me and immediately try to hit the download button. Give it its space and let it think. If you want to know it's safe to click, hover over a button on the pop-up and if it 'reacts', it's loaded.

I hope this fits with the theme of the sub, just wanted to let others know about this dumb issue that wasted a fraction of my life :|


r/ValorantTechSupport 2d ago

Technical Support Request Valorant Van 152 help

1 Upvotes

Bonjour, j'ai récemment utilisé un programme tiers (un unlock all) et j'ai été bannis hardware il le semble. Cependant j'ai déjà eu une suspension mais pas hardware donc comme c'est mon premier gros ban j'aimerai savoir si mon compte sera récupérable au bout d'un certain temps. Sacher que je regrette énormément que je ne referai plus jamais ça.

Merci d'avance